I thought I knew the answer to this question - What happens after death? - until I experienced Unity / complete absence of an"I". Now the answers I thought I had are inadequate. I no longer know or maybe I am not ready to accept the answer.
Sey 
With the falling away of the personal āIā,even if for a brief moment,there is the direct experience of oneās eternal boundless nature,beyond body and mind. There is the awareness of this body as form,contained in formlessness,and the direct knowing that the āIā,or ālittle meā and all of itās beliefs,ideas,conceptions etc., that also arise and dissolve within this permanent unchanging awareness,is just imagination without substance. That in reality,through our direct experience,we are formless consciousness that has no beginning and no end. Whatever karmic baggage we are carrying is then seen with a different level of perception and heightened awareness and this loosens the grip.
We can now clearly see and differentiate from what is āmeā and what is not āmeā and allow the attachments,desires,etc.,to dissolve. We become more of āthatā and less of āwhat is not thatā, until there is nothing left of āwhat is not thatā to be drawn by and attach to. There is the dissolving away of identification with what was once thought to be āmeā or the false separate identity, along with all itās untrue/false ideas, beliefs, concepts and clouded perceptions.
If there is no personal āIā that dies,as it never existed in the first place, except as a conceptual idea or thought we believed to be permanent and real,who or what then dies?
I canāt presume to know what happens after death as that itself would be an imagination.I can only be knowing of that which is ever aware,existing here-now, and is devoid of any thing-ness, including the idea of a separate personal self or āI/meā,and is true to what is everlasting and therefore substantially real.[OM]
Wow, just wow. Thank you for all your responses. I canāt wait to keep practicing and cultivating the techniques so I also can realize such beautiful experiences.
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What Christi said. I like how George Harrison expressed it, I cannot find the quote at the moment but it was something to the effect: āWhen we die we go where our heart is, what we really want more than anything.ā When our desire for God is greater than all earthly desires and we make a consistent daily practice of keeping our heart and mind in God including at the moment of death, that is the door to paradise.
After revisiting this topic. I come to understand with deeper insight, each and everytime. Itās the same with all AYP practices, the more we practice the more refined the understanding becomes and itās always a new experience. God bless.
agreed!
Absolutely. Thank you for bring up the thread again.
Sey
Yeah great,
Itās nice to see what Jamie wrote on death. Itās a nice thread.
Well death is loss of awareness, so you can say that we experience death every night, we go to sleep and lose awareness, and we all know what that is like, we close our eyes, and we are gone, then in the morning we open them, and we are āhereā again, to know what happens between these two points is all a matter of awareness. Sleep is a deep state of relaxation; though spiritual practices we learn to remain aware as we move into ever increasing states of relaxation, this is how conscious sleep (the ability to maintain awareness as we pass into the deep state of relaxation that sleep provides) becomes available to us; physical death (death of the body) is a very deep state of relaxation, so deep in fact that we lose the body altogether, but, we need not lose awareness as we pass into this very deep state of relaxation. Breath is life, from the second we emerge from the womb, to the second we die, we breathe, the cessation of breath is (called) death (yet death is loss of awareness), though meditation we learn to maintain awareness as we move into the breathless state, and though skilful practice we learn to increase our time here (in the breathless state), and though this we start to be able to see that which lays beyond, that which lays beyond our normal realms of perception, itās all just a matter of turning our attention (energy) inwards (to look within), keep one eye ever present within. When we look outwardly, we are subject to the polarity of positive and negative (the world of fluctuation) there is a place within, where we can join the two polarities of positive and negative, when this happens, they cancel eachother out (equilibrium), we are neither this nor that, yet we are everything, we remain unaffected, unchangeable, unshakable, we move beyond the positive and the negative, we bring them both to a point of singularity.
Om Shanti! I never thought or worried about that or asked a question. But here is what I know and what I experienced. By just sending a vibration from where I live I have sent the blessing of samhadi experiences and my neighbor enjoyed it for over 4 months.
I just said to her Hi one morning and she is enjoying bliss and serenity. You name it pure samhadi. She is experiencing her true nature and she didnāt even say hi to me she was in a deep silence and big smile.
When I see things like this, when I see people who have been lost yet again find their true nature, I donāt ask about what will happen to me after death or what death is. I enjoy what I have in my hand right now. I enjoy life and I love life and that is what matters. Whatever I know it is because I have to know and I donāt push it. It will just be the way I have to be. Be Still
Om Shanti!